Estimating the local effect of weather on field crop production with unobserved producer behavior: A bioeconomic modeling framework

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 279-302

  Jiang, Yong ^a   Koo, Won W ^b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change; Crop production; Management; Weather; Yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903892124     PISSN: 1432847X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10018-014-0079-9     Document Type: Article

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